false <![CDATA[Blood Test]]> 172912 28 It is a case unlike any psychologist Dr. Alex Delaware has ever encountered. Five-year-old Woody Swope is ill, but the real problem is his parents. They refuse to agree to the one treatment that could save this boy's life.<br><br>Alex sets out to convince Mr. and Mrs. Swope--only to find that the parents have left the hospital and taken their son with them. Worse, the sleazy motel room where the Swopes were staying is empty--except for the ominous bloodstain. The Swopes and their son have vanished into the sordid shadows of the city.<br><br>Now Alex and his friend, homocide detective Milo Sturgis, have no choice but to push the law to the breaking point. They've entered an amoral underworld where drugs, dreams, and sex are all for sale...where fantasies are fulfilled at any price--even at the cost of a young boy's life. 2423928 1986 Blood Test (Alex Delaware Series, #2) total:1068|5:192|4:412|3:404|2:55|1:5| 1068 3935 1401 28 2 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Jul 14 10:50:01 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 14 11:25:26 -0700 2009 1 When The Bough Breaks, the first Alex Delaware novel, in that it is not as solid overall as the later Jonathan Kellerman books I have read.

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I spent most of this book waiting for that proverbial other shoe. Kellerman, in my mind, has always been one of those Andrew Vachss-style one-trick ponies who blames all of the world's problems on one narrow, and possibly specious, band of the ps...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 16 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 19:06:24 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 16 19:07:44 -0700 2009
Psychosis, nymphomania, other manias, dirty cops, dirty doctors, death and mayhem. It gets entertaining.

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